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Scars of Independence, America's Violent Birth

 

Category: History: U.S.: 18th Century


Author: Hoilger Hoock

 

Copyright/published Year: 2017 by Crown

 

ISBN: 0804137286

 

Binding: hardcover


In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back into the story of the Revolution. American Patriots persecuted and tortured Loyalists. British troops massacred enemy soldiers and raped colonial women. Prisoners were starved on disease-ridden ships and in subterranean cells. African-Americans fighting for or against independence suffered disproportionately, and Washington's army waged a genocidal campaign against the Iroquois. In vivid, authoritative prose, Hoock's new reckoning also examines the moral dilemmas posed by this all-pervasive violence, as the British found themselves torn between unlimited war and restraint toward fellow subjects, while the Patriots documented war crimes in an ingenious effort to unify the fledgling nation.

 


Condition Information

This is a used book.

'like new' used copy.

 

Condition Description

Like new copy. Only mark is a small red dot on page bottoms.

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